Driven Brownian transport through arrays of symmetric obstacles

Details Driven Brownian transport through arrays of symmetric obstacles Driven Brownian transport through arrays of symmetric obstacles

2011-12-19

arxiv.org/abs/1112.4341v1

Phys. Rev. E 85, 011101 (2012)

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Chemical Physics

10 pages 13 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.85.011101

We numerically investigate the transport of a suspended overdamped Brownian particle which is driven through a two-dimensional rectangular array of circular obstacles with finite radius. Two limiting cases are considered in detail, namely, when the constant drive is parallel to the principal or the diagonal array axes. This corresponds to studying the Brownian transport in periodic channels with reflecting walls of different topologies. The mobility and diffusivity of the transported particles in such channels are determined as functions of the drive and the array geometric parameters. Prominent transport features, like negative differential mobilities, excess diffusion peaks, and unconventional asymptotic behaviors, are explained in terms of two distinct lengths, the size of single obstacles (trapping length) and the lattice constant of the array (local correlation length). Local correlation effects are further analyzed by continuously rotating the drive between the two limiting orientations.

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